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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Books Business Butterfly Committee Crude Deeply Den Feels Light Like Meetings Might Personal Release Storm Subject Them Violation Well You

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In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Books Life Like Love Tension Tranquility

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People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: About Books Bully Characters Considering Dinner Dinner Party Hated He Her His How Invite Just Like Mean Mother Often Oh Party People She Talk Treated Were Whom

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'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Actor Backs Books Child Child Actors Feel For The People London Makes People Place Plot School Sorry Stage Takes Temple Who Write You 1960S

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I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: Because Bit Books Business Companies Guys How Interested Learn Like Mess Nobody Press Quite Quite A Bit Struggling Successful Talk Thing Think Want Wants Who Whole Write You I Think

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When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: After Books Ceo Company Designed Directions Few First Give Help How Job Management Months Much Read Screw Up Very Were You Your

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Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: After Books Companies Consultants Hear Management Most Only Stories Study Succeeded Successful Winning Written

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In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

~Ben Horowitz

Topics: About Asking Asking Questions Awake Books Business Could Experience Find Help Laying Management Me My Own Myself Out Own Questions Were Would

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You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

~Ben Horowitz

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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Across Books Bookstores Came Comic Comics Early Edward Fit How Kid Know Like Me Newspaper Objects Really Small Things Unusual Were World I Came

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